IMAX at Paseo San Francisco

Quito · EcuadorSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 32/100 — a modest premium screen, 237 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 October 2026.

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Map position approximate (city centre)

~IQ 32provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 21.2 m × 12 m (254 m²)
Screen shape: 1.77:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: Not published
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2013
Operator

⚠ Still trading, but no longer an IMAX venue. Cinema still open as Multicines Paseo San Francisco (Cumbaya, 7 screens) but current formats are only 2D and 3D RealD. The mall's own directory page makes no mention of IMAX, and imax.com's Quito listings are Supercines Riocentro Quito and Supercines 6 de Diciembre only. Some stale directories still list IMAX.

The projector here comes from a 2021 industry listing that we haven't been able to re-confirm. IMAX has converted a lot of screens to laser since, so a 2021 label is a 2021 state rather than a current one. Treat the score as indicative.

Why IQ 32

Screen size13/38

237 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection11/36

IMAX Digital Xenon · recorded 2021 · one source

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

How big, really?

Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m

1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
3IMAX at Paseo San Francisco · 21.2×12.0 m · picture 237 m², 7% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 254 m² total)

What you actually see

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IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are

dark

Screen: 254 m²
Picture: 237 m²
Screen used: 93%

0.8 m of this screen's height — 7% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.

Worth travelling for?

Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach

Supercines Riocentro Quito & IMAX

Quito, Pichincha

You'd get 24% more screen.

Better screens within 75 mi

•Where to next

All of Ecuador

Also in Quito

Supercines 6 de Diciembre & IMAX293 m²

Elsewhere in Ecuador

Where this comes from

Single source

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: single source
Operating status: verified not-imax

The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.

Showtimes

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